President Andrzej Duda started his Wednesday visit to the north-western Zachodniopomorskie province by honouring the victims of a 2008 Polish Casa C-295 military plane crash that claimed the lives of 16 officers and four crew.

President Andrzej Duda and Defence Minister Antoni Macierewicz commemorated the servicemen by laying wreaths at an obelisk to the victims.

On the evening of January 23, 2008, the Casa C-295 crashed at a military airfield in Miroslawiec. The officers were coming back from a Warsaw conference on the safety of flights. (PAP)